Garbage-destroyer



(No Model.) A. K. BROWN.

GARBAGE DESTROYER.

No. 338,134. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

WI TJV' E SS ES Harney/5 IJVVEJVTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIA K. BROVN, OF NEWTON, IOWA.

GARBAGE-DESTROYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,134, dated March16, 1886.

Application lcd April 18, 1885. Serial No. 162,692.

.T0 tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIA K. BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newton, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Garbage-Destroyers, andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a vertical longitudinalsection. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the cylinder.

My invention relates to garbage-destroyers; and it consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts, as will be hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, cl designates afurnace, of which d is the grate-bars and e the ash-pit.

O designates a vertical cylinder or reservoir, which extends above thetop of the brick-work of the furnace, and extends also down nearly tothe grate d', and this cylinder C is provided in its lower end with aninclined dumping-grate, c, having a dumpingrod, c', connected therewithto be used for dumping the contents of the reservoir.

c designates a hopper, through which the garbage is fed to the cylinder,the bottom of this hopper being provided with a dumpingvalve, Z, tocontrol the supply of the garbage to the cylinder. Just above thedumpingvalve b the hopper is tapped by a pipe, m, having a stopcock, m',which .pipe is designed to convey the water from the garbage in thehopper into the sewer bynatural drainage before the garbage is admittedto the cylinder to serve as fuel.

G designates a second smaller furnace, having a grate G which isconnected with the furnace cl and the boiler h by the pipe f.-

O designates a gas-pipe in the vertical cylinder C, which conveys thegas generated in (No model.)

the upper portion of the cylinder C to the fire on the firegrate andaids combustion.

I designates a pipe which connects the cylinder O with the smoke-stackJ, said pipe I being provided with a stop-cock, K, by which the steamgenerated in the cylinder C may be permitted to escape by way of thesmokestack.

h designates an ordinary steam-boiler, which the cylinder down throughthe dumping-grate at the bottom of the cylinder nearly to thefire-grate.

The dumping-grate may be made so as to dump from the center, and isoperated by a rod extending through the furnace-wall. By thisconstruction it will be seen that after the liquid matter has been'removed from the garbage in the funnel a it may be dumped into thereservoir C by simply drawing the slide-valve I), and is then consumedby the fire beneath the said-cylinder.

The particles of combustion will be delivered to the boiler by means ofthe pipe f, and the secondary furnace will serve to heat the said pipeand consequently the particles of combustion therein until carried intothe boiler.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination, with the furnace d, and the cylinder having thevalved feedinghopper, dumping-grate, and gas-pipe O', of the secondaryfurnace, the boiler, smoke- `-stack, and the valved steam-pipeconnecting i the cylinder and smoke-stack, substantially as specified.

2. A garbage-destroyer consisting of a main furnace, a reservoir in thetop thereof, and

having a dumping-grate at its lower end, a In testimony whereofI afxrnysignaturein Y:Les steanrboiler, a secondary furnace interposed 1presence of two witnesses.

between the main furnace and the steam-boill ker, and a pipe passingthrough the secondary furnace and connecting the boiler with the mainfurnace, whereby garbage placed in the reservoir may be consumed andlthe hot air and particles of combustion utilized to heat the boiler7substantially as specified.

ALVIA I@ BROWN.

Vitnesses:

C. XV. STAHL, C. E. CAMPBELL.

